Last weekend we saw two of the truly elite female fighters face off for a female Flyweight title, as Jessica Chavez and Naoko Fujioka traded blows for the WBC crown. Despite high expectations for that bout it ended up being a stinker with Chavez doing her best to spoil and Fujioka doing her best to look for a 1-punch KO, resulting in a frustrating and messy bout that lacked drama. This coming Sunday, just 8 days after that highly anticipated stinker, we get another female Flyweight title fight, as the once beaten Nana Yoshikawa (6-1, 4) takes on former Light Flyweight champion Eun Hye Lee (8-0, 3).

For the 38 year old Yoshikawa this will be her second world title bout, following a loss to Anabel Ortiz last year. Since that kiss Yoshikawa has fought twice, stopping two limited opponents. Although Yoshikawa was embarrassed by Ortiz she has moved up form 105lbs to 112lbs and let her body fill out rather than continue to try and make a lower weight. At 112lbs she is a fully fledged fighter and can rely on her skills, which are really solid courtesy of a very strong amateur background. She's not close to the level of Fujioka, and we dare saw Chaoz Minowa would beat her already, but she's accomplished, confident and has been developing with good training in Mexico.

Whilst Yoshikawa is talented we can't ignore than fact she is 38 years old. Yeah she's still younger than Fujioka, who we still view as one of the top female fighters on the planet at 41 years old, At that sort of age fighters do decline and it's fair to say that it's now or never for Yoshikawa, who turned professional when she was 35. A loss here will likely be the end of her dreams of being a champion. That's a double edged sword though, the age may inspire her to put it all out there, refusing to losing with out giving everything, or it could simply be a case of trying too much too late in her career.

Aged 33 the Korean visitor is the much younger fighter though she's fighting outside of Korea for the first time and will also be ending a 12 month break from the ring, a break that has seen her career being plagued by financial problems. Those problems have not only left her being inactive but also saw her having to give up the WBO female Light Flyweight title, after seeing a bout with Louisa Hawton fall through multiple times. In fairness Hawton would have been a real handful for Lee but it would still have been nice to have seen that bout happen.

Having previously held a world title at 108lbs Lee will be looking to become a 2-weight world champion, however her competition so far hasn't been great and her most notable wins, over Eun Young Huh and Ploynapa Sakrungrueng are hardly outstanding, even for female for boxing. She looked in control of both of those bouts but neither has really proven her as a world class fighter, and both of those notable wins has been stopped by the naturally smaller Momo Koseki, with being stopped quicker by Koseki than by Lee. Don't get us wrong, she's good, but she's not outstanding and she lacks any sort of break out, world class performance.

We think, with home advantages and the pressure of needing to perform, Yoshikawa should take this, She won't have it all her own way but should be favoured to sneak a competitive decision. However the winner should be careful with Fujioka making it clear she wants a Flyweight title and likely seeing the winner of this as a better, more suitable target than fighting on the road, especially after last weekend's hugfest. Neither Yoshikawa or Lee would stand a chance against Fujioka and so neither will want to catch her eye, or the beating that the Japanese boxing queen would give them.

Th bout will almost certainly be better than last weeks, which was such a huge disappointment, but don't expect to see two world class fighters in the ring, as both are a long way from the divisional elite.